Wawerner Goldberg Riesling Erste Lage
⏳ Drinking Window
2022 - 2035
🍽️ Food & Wine Pairings
Pan-seared trout, roasted pork loin, spicy Thai green curry
✨ Technical Specifications
Hailing from the steep, south-facing slopes of Wawern along the Saar, the Goldberg vineyard is legendary for its unique terroir. The name Goldberg, or Gold Mountain, pays homage to the iron-rich, reddish-yellow Devonian slate that shimmers under the sun and infuses the vines with a distinct, smoky minerality. Van Volxem treats this Erste Lage site with utmost reverence, harvesting late to ensure optimal phenolic ripeness. The wine is fermented spontaneously with indigenous yeasts in traditional, neutral oak fuder casks. This artisanal approach coaxes out a beautifully textured Riesling, balancing the Saar's signature electric acidity with rich, exotic yellow fruit notes and a deep, saline minerality that reflects its ancient riverbed origins.
🍾 About the Producer
Perched dramatically above the Saar River in Wiltingen, Weingut Van Volxem is one of Germany's most heralded historic wine estates. Originating as a Roman villa complex with viticulture traced back to the 3rd century, the property operated as a Jesuit monastery winery established in 1743 before being acquired post-secularization by Brussels brewer Gustav van Volxem. In late 1999, Roman Niewodniczanski acquired the estate and orchestrated an ambitious renaissance, revitalizing storied steep-slope vineyards and inaugurating a state-of-the-art gravity-fed winery atop the Wiltinger Schlossberg. Managing approximately 85 hectares on Devonian slate across top-tier VDP.Grosse Lage sites—such as Scharzhofberger, Wiltinger Gottesfuß, Volz, and Ockfener Bockstein—the estate works predominantly with old, ungrafted Riesling vines. Practicing sustainable, non-interventional viticulture, cellar master Dominik Völk champions spontaneous wild-yeast fermentations and extended aging in neutral oak and stainless steel. Van Volxem produces intensely mineral, low-alcohol, dry-leaning Rieslings and refined sparkling Sekts that revive the aristocratic, turn-of-the-century prestige of traditional Saar wines.
🍇 Grapes
Riesling
🍷 ABV
12% - 12.5%